https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16867
Splarka <h...@goldrush.com> changed:
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--- Comment #3 from Splarka <h...@goldrush.com> 2009-01-03 21:42:46 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> Running that query tells me the rights that an autoconfirmed user gets. That
> much is fine. But it provides no way of determining whether a given user is
> autoconfirmed or not.
That is because this is an implicit group, that is determined by the software
at each access. It is sometimes predictable but sometimes not.
A user may pass $wgAutoConfirmAge between you viewing their information and
them performing an action. A user may pass $wgAutoConfirmCount in either
direction, via editing or having edits deleted.
Even more confounding to the potential prediction, when using the TorBlock
extension (as WMF does) there are two more variables:
$wgTorAutoConfirmAge and $wgTorAutoConfirmCount. These allow separate settings
for IPs coming from TOR nods. This means that a user could bounce in and out of
autoconfirmed status depending on which IPs they're using.
The software would then basically have to 'cache' the implict groups at the
last action or access (like, a page view), and return that, but this would be
inaccurate. Suggest re-close INVALID.
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